Thomas Clayton

Thomas Clayton (July 1777-21 August 1854) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Delaware's at-large district (F) from 4 March 1815 to 4 March 1817 (succeeding Henry M. Ridgely and preceding Louis McLane) and a US Senator from 8 January 1824 to 4 March 1827 (succeeding Caesar Augustus Rodney and preceding McLane) and from 9 January 1837 to 4 March 1847 (succeeding John M. Clayton and preceding Presley Spruance).

Biography
Thomas Clayton was born in Massey, Kent County, Maryland in 1777, and he began a law practice in Dover, Delaware in 1799. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1803 to 1808 and from 1811 to 1815, and he went on to serve as Attorney General of Delaware from 1810 to 1815, in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817, in the State Senate from 1821 to 1824, in the US Senate from 1824 to 1827 and from 1837 to 1847, and as Chief Justice of Delaware from 1832 to 1837. In 1846, he was one of just two senators to vote against the Mexican-American War. He died in 1854.